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Year-round gardening: Ornamental grasses a great addition to any landscape

Grow For It! Ornamental grasses in the garden

Elaine Sanders: Ornamental grasses: No autumn garden is complete without them

I still remember the magazine photo that inspired my love of gardens featuring an autumn landscape at dawn, drifts of muted perennials intertwined with softly arching ornamental grasses seemingly aglow

Adding compost to clay soil may improve planting

Planting In Clay Soils

Photo - howtoplantyourgarden.com Clay soils, found in many of our landscapes, do not mean you can never achieve a garden worthy of glossy magazine coverage but it does mean you will have to work harder at it. Improving your clay soil starts with a basic working knowledge of soil structure and plant needs. First, consider that most plants’ roots grow in the top 8 to 10 inches of soil; even big trees have most of their roots in the upper 18 inches. Underground, roots still need oxygen to “breath” and water to “drink”. Air and water are found in the pore spaces of soils. A good soil is made up of 50% minerals and organic matter and 50% pore space. But a heavy clay soil has considerably less pore space which restricts both air and water. When clay soil is compacted during home construction or just heavy foot traffic, pore space is reduced even more. During rain, what pore space remains fills with water and pushes out the oxygen. If the soil drains slowly (and most clay soils